Since the advent of the Fourth Reich -- I mean, the Trump administration -- the Left is, all of a sudden, very concerned about anti-Semitism.
Tuesday’s edition of Hardball on MSNBC provided yet another example of the Left's latest preoccupation, with USA Today senior political reporter Heidi Przybyla declaring that anti-Semitism is now the "mainstream" sentiment on the right, no longer beholden to the fringes "alt-right, white nationalist movement." Newsbusters provides the transcript:
MATTHEWS: And when someone goes to a graveyard on a weekend down in St. Louis and starts knocking over gravestones, you go — wait a minute — something’s going bad here.
PRZYBYLA: Right. And that’s putting a magnifying glass for the whole country on this phenomenon of what was once a kind of right-wing, fringe, alt-right, white nationalist movement moving more into the mainstream, possibly gaining traction. And I don’t think that people are calling — just like that Jewish reporter — wasn’t calling Donald Trump anti-Semitic, but they’re asking him as leader, as the President of the United States because the numbers don’t lie and if you don’t want to believe the Southern Poverty Law Center, believe the FBI cause they’ve got numbers too.
MATTHEWS: But, politically, look at this. He played the racial card with the birther thing. He played the anti-Mexican, Central American card with the rapists thing. And the Muslim ban he was talking about —
PRZYBYLA: And it goes back to his campaign slogan too —
MATTHEWS: — he’s been playing the cards on the right.
PRZYBYLA: — this American First campaign slogan, which a lot of people, you know, point out — kinda the historical — the his —
MATTHEWS: But we know what that is. That’s 1940 — yeah.
PRZYBYLA: — history of that. Here’s the critical thing, okay? It's not just this fringe group — this fringe movement going mainstream, but it’s a pattern of delayed responses, so it’s not just, you know, not responding in that Thursday news conference until today.
MATTHEWS: Yeah.
PRZYBYLA: But there’s there's been several incidents of that, like when Richard Spencer did the kind of Hail Trump thing at the ball room and they had people doing the Nazi salute. It wasn't until The New York Times pushed him to denounce that. So, it’s this pattern of delayed response.
If only the Left were equally concerned with its own long history of anti-Semitism.
